“When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish to...” — John Oates Quote

“When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.”

“I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.”

“I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.”

“We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.”

“The difference between me and a lot of other people is I can feel the effect of light, space, furniture, height, scale, distance, all these micro-environments affect me in a strong way.”

“As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.”